Eleanor Audley's 1st Appearance on Green Acres! 

She really was

When you think about it, there was a certain degree of dark humor in much of Maleficent and Lady Tremaine's dialogue.

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and to think, Lucifer was male. So Oliver is Lucifer

@2k cinemas Movieclips yes and also lady tremaine in cinderella

Why does she look like lady Tremaine 😂

@@Jo_Wardy Because the animators at the time would base their characters' looks on the actors playing them. There's archival photographs of Eleanor Audley on the Disney animation lot dressed as Lady Tremaine (and also as Maleficent eight years later).

It's so memorable and spine-tingling at the same time.

Ya don't think Natalie Schafer could have pulled of this role?

Which makes it extra funny because it's so rare to see on tv. Usually it's the daughter-in-law being detested for marrying their son...or whatever. Eunice adores and favorites her daughter-in-law over her own son. Who she shunns especially after buying a farm and becoming a farmer.

Add another episode in season 1..she has a picture of Lisa framed (as if were for your child) rather than Oliver....

pretty common, my grandmother on my dad’s side would usually treat my mother like her own daughter.

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Most certainly

“Now you shall deal with me young prince and ALL THE FIRES OF HEEELLL!!!”

Eleanor Audley voiced both Lady Trimaine and Maleficent!

And Mr. Haney as the Sheriff of Nottingham. XD

Elenor audley and Eva Gabor

Or Lady Tremaine and Duchess.

@@darthstarkiller1912 that’s pat butram your talking about

@@darthstarkiller1912Mr. Haney also voiced that dog in the Aristocrats, Napoleon.

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And Miss Bianca is her daughter-in-law. XD

Bonfamille and Tremaine could have been opposite good and evil twins

Also voiced Lady Tremaine in Cinderella. The Wicked Stepmother.

Truth often stranger! LOL!

This very minute I am watching her as a guest actress on the Dick Van Dyke Show. Just great!

@@dianeredekas4490 You realize that Mr. Van Dyke is likely the ONLY living cast member of both these shows!

I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree, my friend! While Ms. Audley will undoubtedly be remembered best for her work with Walt Disney, her work in other areas is prevelant and well-respected. Her role as Maleficent is as dramatic and genius as voice acting gets and have inspired many future generations of voice actresses (I'm looking at you, Pam!) Though she often got "type-cast" as a society matron and upper-crust loon, it afforded her the pleasure of working constantly for her entire career on Broadway, Radio, Film, and TV. Thankfully her work is most recognized as part of the Disney Universe, which has kept her name and voice alive so long after her retirement and death. There are hundreds of character actresses who didn't have that one big notable break to carry them from generation to generation (like Elvia Allman, for example.) I'm 27 years old and I'm writing a biography of Margaret Dumont, and I'm keeping the legacy of character actresses alive in my own small way. Audley is, and will always be, Maleficent, as Betty Lou Gerson will always be Cruella, and Lucille LaVerne will always be Queen Grimhilde. If that role is the furnace keeping her flame lit through immortality, who are we to pity her?

@@stevenkrage2412 It's more the overshadowing than anything. It's a good role, yet I find these comedic ones as something that makes her more than pure evil. I'd say she was more versatile than she is oft given credit for. Furthermore, my point of view if far different than most. I never saw SB until I was a teen. So it's not as deeply burned into my mind as with most viewers.

I noticed everyone keeps mentioning that she played Maleficent. Did you forget she also played Cinderella's stepmother?

@@gageperuti5519 I always thought Tremaine and Leota were better characters and were woefully overshadowed by her. I found Male overrated.

I get what you're saying. But her voice MY GOD it's so engraved in my memory with her iconic Disney performances. The villains she played still send shivers down my spine.

Hear hear!

That's because the late Miss Audley embraced her characters' villainhood (and had fun with it) instead of attempting to spin it into something completely preposterous!

If you listen to the clip, you'll hear him say that's HIS mother. That's the joke of the scene is she's not sticking up for her son haha

@@stevenkrage2412 It's so rare to see the mother favor the daughter-in-law and treat her like her own child and favoritism and shun her own son. Which makes it hilarious. Even Oliver mentions how unnaturally it is at one point. As most don't get along with their mother-in-laws....as Oliver himself says he doesn't like Lisa's mother.

@@SashGirl34 Rare but not unheard of! Why my own late paternal grandmother would chime in for my own mother's behalf whenever my parents had even the tiniest disagreements! It's true! But then the combined factors of my paternal grandmother having wanted a daughter but only bearing one son AND the fact that she didn't like my father adoring HER mother (who herself HAD wanted her own son) while, at best, tolerating his mother (and my own mother always trying to think the best of others and wanting to be a peacemaker) all contributed to this unusual dynamic!

@@wardarcade7452 I was talking more on tv. You rarely see the mother-in-law favor their daughter-in-law. Most cases it's the mother resenting the daughter-in-law for marrying their son.

@@wardarcade7452 So this could be a big factor why Eunice Douglas favored her daughter in law over her own son. Lisa is more the ideal child she longs for. The fact she has Lisa's picture framed for example. I think she wanted a daughter. And there's times she just ashamed of having her own son.

Also Mrs.Billings on " The Dick Van Dyke Show " .